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It's been a week and a half since @marieverdeil and I started our EXTRA residency around permacomputing at @imal, so I thought it would be a good time to share some of the things we have been researching so far ✨

We are looking at batteries as means of energy storage, for now from all angles - we looked into their chemical compositions, how they're produced, recycled, reused, as well as the discourse around batteries as *the* solution to a sustainable future.

By the end of our one-month residency we will talk about our process and do a two-day workshop titled 'And what if we cooked with batteries?' at @imal's event The Cookery (save the date, it's 18-21 of September)

Below are two images from the first couple of days of the residency!

Grey desk with a laptop and external monitor showing a youtube video about how to DIY a battery. On the table are containers with various alcaline batteries and some notes on sheets of white paper.
White female with brown hair measuring the size of a lithium-ion battery with a metal measuring tool and looking intently at the battery. She has a laptop in front of her.
@marie verdeil @iMAL Brussels (25 years!)
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feld

The interesting thing that "Charlie" enables is for people to be able to install that oven/range to replace gas where they wouldn't normally have the required electrical hookup, whether just a wiring issue or maybe their mains panel is too small to add another 30A and be allowed by code anyway

So if you could build a battery+inverter combo device that let you do this for a normal oven/range that would be pretty awesome

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 16 updated and 1 added apps:

* Fluffy: a lightweight file manager for phones, tablets, and Android TV 🛡️

RB status: 697 apps (53.6%)

3 #Magisk modules were updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #magisk #izzyondroid

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I've avoided making any kind of deep investment into "smart home" junk, but I will say that the number one thing I care about being able to control is the thermostat.

All these smart home devices with wifi and cloud control capabilities end up being abandoned after a few years which is ridiculous. Most don't have a local API.

So that leaves you with two options if you want to go down the route of local-only control: Zigbee and Z-Wave

Zigbee products are cheaper, but they're 2.4ghz and wifi-adjacent. See lots of complaints about it and its reliability.

Z-Wave products are much more expensive, but it's 900mhz and many devices automatically act as repeaters. Range is good, people say it's rock solid for years.

It appears that both Z-Wave and Zigbee dongles expose themselves as serial interfaces, so it should be pretty straightforward working with either one.

HomeAssistant is going hard into Z-Wave though -- they just released a new bridge for it

home-assistant.io/blog/2025/08…

previously they did Zigbee:

home-assistant.io/connectzbt1/

Either way I think it's probably much more future-proof than this Wifi based junk.


Z-Wave reborn - Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2

Announcing the ultimate way to connect Z-Wave devices to Home Assistant
Home Assistant

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From the awesome explanation and examples in @SaraSoueidan’s CSS scroll-spy post — sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-scro… — I learned what that kind of thing is called and how it works (ideally and accessibly) and was able today to build a production Alpine version to solve an open ticket for the project I’m working on. 👏

CSS-only scrollspy effect using scroll-marker-group and :target-current

— The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive Web UI engineer
www.sarasoueidan.com
@Sara Soueidan

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Je v pořádku sprchovat se jen jednou týdně jako Tommy Lee? Pro pokožku je to lepší, tvrdí odborníci

A čo vy? Ako často sa sprchujete?
#zdravie
prozeny.cz/clanek/chcete-mit-z…


Je v pořádku sprchovat se jen jednou týdně jako Tommy Lee? Pro pokožku je to lepší, tvrdí odborníci

Jak často se sprchovat? Podle odborníků rozhodně ne denně, naopak ideálnímu stavu je blíž hudebník Tommy Lee, který míří pod sprchu jednou týdně.
Veronika Lichnovská (Proženy.cz)
#zdravie

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The slides from my first talk from earlier today at #OSSummit can be found below. Building a SolarPunk Web: Open Source for a Sustainable Digital Future

#SolarPunk #OpenSource #ClimateTech #WebSustainability #SustyWeb

docs.google.com/presentation/d…


Building a Solarpunk Web: Open Source for a Sustainable Digital Future

Building a SolarPunk Web Open Source for a Sustainable Digital Future Mike Gifford, Open Source Summit Europe 2025 August 27, 2025 2:10-2:50pm CEST D202 (Elicium Level 2) Building a Solarpunk Web: Open Source for a Sustainable Digital Future - Mike G…
Google Docs
#opensource #solarpunk #OSSummit #sustyweb #WebSustainability #climatetech

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One week to go, until the #LibreOffice Conference 2025 begins: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Conference logo, depicting a bridge

One week to the LibreOffice Conference in Budapest - The Document Foundation Blog

The LibreOffice Conference will start in a week from today with the Community Meeting, at the Faculty of Informatics of ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University) in Pázmány Péter stny. 1/C, 1117 Budapest.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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Reminder that as of June 10, Microsoft's stated cloud data sovereignty policy is that they give precedence to US government requests over sovereign countries' laws.

digitaljournal.com/tech-scienc…

I'm not sure this is widely understood by decision makers yet.


Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty - Digital Journal

Microsoft representative says US CLOUD Act comes before other country's sovereignty.
Alexander Rudolph (Digital Journal Inc)

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🚨Cyber Alert - PayPal Credential Dump‼️

If you have a PayPal account, it doesn't hurt changing passwords now (though PayPal requires 2FA anyway).

A threat actor, "Chucky_BF" claims to sell almost 16 million email addresses and plaintext passwords to PayPal accounts worldwide. But is the data from a recent hack?

Find out more here 👉 tuta.com/blog/worst-paypal-hac…

Screenshot of the ad on the dark web with the title: What is Chucky_BF actually selling?

Worst PayPal hack in history, or is it? | Tuta

Was PayPal hacked in 2025? This is what someone on the dark web claims. Let’s find out.
Tuta

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i think i'm still the only person to note that the authors of the 95/5 paper are *cryptocurrency grifters* who want to sell you their Web3 solution to this "problem"

i believe it warrants wider discussion when this paper is brought up

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/21/mit…


MIT on enterprise AI: 95% failure, 5% spam — from 100% crypto bros

MIT’s Project NANDA has a new paper: “The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025.” This got a writeup in Fortune a few days ago about how 95% of generative AI projects in business just fail. Th…
Pivot to AI

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#Wernigerode!

Ein Besuch in der bunten Stadt am Harz lohnt sich!

Als Herberge kann ich aus eigener Erfahrung empfehlen:
Hotel „Zur Tanne“.

zur-tanne-wernigerode.de/
Sehr schönes Ambiente, unaufdringliche, angenehme Athmosphäre und ein sehr gutes und schönes Frühstück mit vielen kleinen Überraschungen.

Blick vom Ottofelsen auf Wernigerode. Rechts liegt das Schloß auf dem Berg. Links ein Teil des Fellsens mit vertrockneter Fichte. Blauer Himmel mit Wolken.

Willkommen im Hotel Zur Tanne Wernigerode

Herzlich Willkommen im Hotel Zur Tanne Die Tanne ist eines der ältesten Hotels in Wernigerode. »Alles prima, die Mischung aus rustikaler und moderner Einrichtung in den geräumigen Zimmern ist großartig.
Hotel Zur Tanne
#wernigerode

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Our #LibreOffice Conference 2025 is coming up in Budapest from 4 – 6 September: conference.libreoffice.org/202… – But there are many other #FOSS events around the world, like UbuCon India from November 15 – 16: events.canonical.com/event/136… #OpenSource

UbuCon India 2025

The UbuCon India UbuCon India is the first-ever UbuCon by the India LoCo dedicated to the Ubuntu ecosystem and the broader Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community in India.
Canonical / Ubuntu Events (Indico)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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642,564 downloads of #LibreOffice 25.8 since its release last week! More stats here: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

LibreOffice 25.8: The first week, in statistics - The Document Foundation Blog

One week ago, we announced LibreOffice 25.8, our brand new major release. It’s packed with new features, and has many improvements to compatibility and performance too.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#libreoffice
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AUSTRALOPITHECUS 🇺🇦🇨🇿

note that most of us linux users are not counted in because get our copies from the distributions

btw i just looked and Apache OpenOffice still gets this many downloads in roughly 30 days (no noteworthy distro ships the apache version)

25,584,847 downloads of since the last time they managed to build the thing (two years ago). keeping them in thoughts and prayers

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LibreOffice

@lkundrak Yes, it says exactly that about Linux in the blog post 😊

Regarding OpenOffice, it's not only unmaintained but has years-old, unfixed security issues now: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_O… – Yet Apache keeps calling it the "leading open source office suite".


free and open-source office suite

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
@AUSTRALOPITHECUS 🇺🇦🇨🇿
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Timo Tijhof

That's right, just a random day!

mastodon.social/@tdp_org/11505…

fosstodon.org/@krinkle/1150988…

Timo Tijhof

2025-08-27 04:21:48

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Inspired by the BBC Tech report from @tdp_org, I looked at Wikipedia.

Yesterday, Wikipedia received over 45 million requests made with curl, from 113 distinct curl releases.

Of these, 32 million use the default UA (e.g. curl CLI). The other 13 million embed libcurl with a longer UA string containing curl (e.g. GuzzleHttp/PHP, PycURL, UnityPlayer)

At 12 million, most are curl/7.88.1.

Raw data, queries, and scrub/cleaning parameters:
gitlab.wikimedia.org/-/snippet…

#browserstats #curl #wikipedia

Wikipedia web requests by user agents containing "curl/". Top 3: * curl/7.88.1 (12.5 million) * curl/7.85.0 (10 million) * curl/8.10.1 (8 millon)
Wikipedia web requests by curl user agent, over a 24 hour period. Top 3: * curl/7.88.1 (12.5 million) * curl/7.85.0 (10 million) * curl/7.54 (5 millon)
Wikipedia web requests by curl user agent from HTTP requests to wikimedia.org, wikipedia.org, and other Wikimedia Foundation projects on 2025-08-26. Ranging from curl/7.4.x (oldest) to curl/8.15.x (newest). Exact numbers in linked TSV files.
Wikipedia web requests by user agent containing "curl/". Ranging from curl/4.x (oldest) to curl/8.16.x (newest), and a bogus curl/3860.

20250826-webrequest-curl ($247) · Snippets · GitLab

GitLab Community Edition
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Inspired by the BBC Tech report from @tdp_org, I looked at Wikipedia.

Yesterday, Wikipedia received over 45 million requests made with curl, from 113 distinct curl releases.

Of these, 32 million use the default UA (e.g. curl CLI). The other 13 million embed libcurl with a longer UA string containing curl (e.g. GuzzleHttp/PHP, PycURL, UnityPlayer)

At 12 million, most are curl/7.88.1.

Raw data, queries, and scrub/cleaning parameters:
gitlab.wikimedia.org/-/snippet…

#browserstats #curl #wikipedia

Wikipedia web requests by user agents containing "curl/". Top 3: * curl/7.88.1 (12.5 million) * curl/7.85.0 (10 million) * curl/8.10.1 (8 millon)
Wikipedia web requests by curl user agent, over a 24 hour period. Top 3: * curl/7.88.1 (12.5 million) * curl/7.85.0 (10 million) * curl/7.54 (5 millon)
Wikipedia web requests by curl user agent from HTTP requests to wikimedia.org, wikipedia.org, and other Wikimedia Foundation projects on 2025-08-26. Ranging from curl/7.4.x (oldest) to curl/8.15.x (newest). Exact numbers in linked TSV files.
Wikipedia web requests by user agent containing "curl/". Ranging from curl/4.x (oldest) to curl/8.16.x (newest), and a bogus curl/3860.

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#wikipedia #curl #browserstats @Neil Craig
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With how often I've yelled at abusive Google behaviour and its risk without anyone really caring, especially for the first round of their dev doxxing by forcefully showing everyone's legal name on the Google Play Store (forcing some trans people to choose between pulling their app(s) down or being forcefully outed and deadnamed), I feel quite tired to even consider yelling again but...

We really should not allow Google to deanonymize every single app dev: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…


Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

Google says it’s no different than checking IDs at the airport.
Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)

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Sylvia

@Kurt @PC_Fluesterer Several downsides to that:

1. Someone will be responsible for the apps someone else makes
2. If one of the apps in the coop gets banned, *all* of the apps in it may get banned

Also, depending on Google's implementation, the following might also happen:
3. Joining/leaving the coop will force a resign, forcing all existing users to reinstall (and lose data)
4. The dev will have to wait for the coop to sign each update, slowing down their ability to release updates

@Kurt @Christoph Schmees

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NV Access is very pleased to announce an update to our highly-praised "Microsoft Excel with NVDA" training module!

This extensive rewrite includes new topics like Pivot Tables, plus bonus topics & more.

Purchase it on its own: nvaccess.org/product/microsoft…

Or in the NVDA Productivity Bundle: nvaccess.org/product/nvda-prod…

Previous purchases: nvaccess.org/my-account/downlo…

Thanks for all feedback!

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Microsoft #MicrosoftExcel #Excel #SpreadSheets #MicrosoftOffice #Office365

Cover image for book, which is purple with white triangles on the right corners covering about a quarter of the cover. Title 'Microsoft Excel with NVDA' and format 'Electronic text' in white on purple. NVDA logo top-right, NV Access logo lower-right both in purple on white. Sunburst designs around cover in lighter purple. Full description of NVDA and NV Access logos available on 'About NVDA' and 'About NV Access' pages on nvaccess.com

NV Access | My Account

www.nvaccess.org
#microsoft #nvdasr #nvda #office365 #microsoftoffice #excel #spreadsheets #microsoftexcel

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Alas, it is time for more uncomfortable questions, in this case regarding the announced Android developer verification program: commonsware.com/blog/2025/08/2… #AndroidDev

Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification

Google announced a program that is proving to be unpopular among Android app development experts. I have questions.
CommonsWare: Android App Development Books
#androiddev

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Join us once more for the Reaper Made Easy Q&A. Saturday, August 30th, 3PM Eastern, 8PM UK

Hey all, it's that time again.

As summer, for most of us, moves toward fall...

Oh no! Let's not talk about that. Forget I said anything. Summer is forever, right?

What I'm actually here for is to remind you of our monthly Live Q&A meetup.
Join Scott and Jenny K on Saturday. for I'm Perplexed, What's next? A Q&A session covering all things REAPER, OSARA and accessible production. As usual, we'll be making sure questions from newcomers slip to the front of the queue.
Details are at reaperteacher.com. That's also where you can send us something that you're working on to listen to during the session. Constructive feedback from objective, experienced ears can be super useful.
There are normally a few present to help us with that if the hosts lose focus. :)

See ya there,
Jen

REAPER Teacher

accessible training, all free for the taking
reaperteacher.com

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It's 2025, and Canada is literally on fire. 1 in 4 Canadians can't afford enough food to eat. Housing starts are down, and are projected to continue falling.

What are Carney's priorities? Subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, of course. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ctvnews.ca/business/article/to…

#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #GlobalBoiling #CostOfLivingCrisis


Touting ‘enormous’ LNG opportunities, Carney says Canada to unveil new port infrastructure investments within two weeks

Amid his push to strengthen energy and economic ties with Europe, Prime Minister Mark Carney revealed Tuesday that the federal government will imminently be unveiling major new investments in port infrastructure.
Rachel Aiello (CTVNews)
#Climatecrisis #canada #cdnpoli #nopipelines #globalboiling #CostOfLivingCrisis
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Gordon J Holtslander

Carney: "Touting ‘enormous’ LNG opportunities"

LNG "Canada" is almost entirely foreign owned. What will the handful of Canadian workers get compared to the profits that leave the country?

corporatemapping.ca/profiles/l…

ctvnews.ca/business/article/to…

© Ownership Shareholder Country Ownership Share (%) Royal Dutch Shell NL 40 PETRONAS MY 25 PetroChina CN 15 Mitsubishi JP 15 KOGAS KR 5 Ownership information from the BC Oil and Gas Commission*

Touting ‘enormous’ LNG opportunities, Carney says Canada to unveil new port infrastructure investments within two weeks

Amid his push to strengthen energy and economic ties with Europe, Prime Minister Mark Carney revealed Tuesday that the federal government will imminently be unveiling major new investments in port infrastructure.
Rachel Aiello (CTVNews)
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Is there a better way to draw to a canvas than Cairo in GTK? The GIR files for Cairo are from my understanding hand-written and lack a bunch of functions/isn't meant to be used as the base for an extensive Cairo binding. I've found a few other hand-written ones outside of GTK proper (for example github.com/bailuk/java-gtk/blo…), but I wonder if I'm doing something wrong here. `gotk` uses fully custom bindings for example, but if I can re-use my GIR generator ... that's ofc nicer

java-gtk/generator/src/main/resources/cairo-custom.gir at 5f76cde9c5814943802423b94c0a55e5866c5463 · bailuk/java-gtk

GTK bindings for Java. Contribute to bailuk/java-gtk development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Felicitas Pojtinger

@federicomena Oh, neat, thank you! Really, all I'm doing here is rendering this little circular progress indicator - you can drag it to set the timer. It's currently implemented as a GtkDrawingArea, which then exposes Cairo which I use to draw it: github.com/pojntfx/sessions/bl… - only, with the new Go bindings I'm using (which don't have the hand-written Cairo GIR in them yet) basic functions like `Arc` aren't available since they aren't in the GIR

Will take a look at the two you've mentioned, thanks!

Setting up a new timer session with sessions
Timer running during a work session with sessions

sessions/main.go at main · pojntfx/sessions

Focus with timed work intervals. Contribute to pojntfx/sessions development by creating an account on GitHub.
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@Federico Mena Quintero
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